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Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
  2. adj. inflicting punishment
  3. Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor. We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand. Bagehot.
  4. Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, orinflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon manof toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor.We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand. Bagehot.
  5. j:98/n:2 a. inflicting punishment